Letter: Weston resident endorses AG candidate

Saturday

Aug 23, 2014 at 11:00 AM

Warren Tolman is the best candidate for attorney general of Massachusetts. Warren offers the best plan to combat opiate abuse by endorsing a greater level of treatment by health care providers. A suffering addict must be able to get a bed, because when a person is in the throes of addiction that is often the best option.

Sam Korab

TO THE EDITOR:

Warren Tolman is the best candidate for attorney general of Massachusetts. Warren offers the best plan to combat opiate abuse by endorsing a greater level of treatment by health care providers. A suffering addict must be able to get a bed, because when a person is in the throes of addiction that is often the best option. An addict without a bed can easily die or end up on the street.

Our first priority must be hospital treatment for opiate abuse. We must elect Warren Tolman in order to ensure that health care providers give a sufficient number of beds to people with substance abuse problems.

Our votes should go to a person who has a great deal of experience with compassionate leadership on public health issues. Warren will show the same kind of leadership on opiate abuse that he has shown with his bold involvement in the fight against the tobacco lobby when they were preying on young children. He has shown he can stand up to powerful special interests, promote a public policy agenda, and win.